JD,
> My question is quite similar to Steven's, except that I have been
> using Workbench. My Source Datasets are for U.S. counties, and I'd
> like to allow the user to specify a county name and destination folder
> in the FME Mapping File Arguments window, and then the full
> path/filename for Destination Datasets to be built from that (using
> county name as filename). I know it's easy to set the path and name
> for a single Destination Dataset, but I have 7 of them (all text
> files, each with a different custom file extension), and since they're
> all going to the same place, I'd rather not have 7 different
> path/filename parameters to specify at runtime.
>
> I gather from this thread that this sort of thing is possible,
> but does it absolutely require a macro? If so, can these macros be
> easily integrated into Workbench? I've never created a Custom Mapping
> File before.
I'd recommend command line/batch file parameters.
E.g. your workbench is called foo.fmw. The parameters it takes are a
source dataset location and a destination dataset location.
Create a batchfile called run_foo.bat. It's contents should be:
@echo off
fme foo.fmw --SourceDataset C:\SourceData\%1 --DestDataset C:\DestData\%1
(line wrapped, be careful with that... also check the FME variable names)
So, assuming you have your source data in C:\SourceData\[county name]
you can run this by entering "run_foo [county name]" on the command line.
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